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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hails from Karnataka.And she knows a bit of Tamil too. The Bollywood actress has done films in

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hails from Karnataka.

And she knows a bit of Tamil too. The Bollywood actress has done films in Tamil such as Iruvar, Jeans and the yet to be released Endhiran with south superstar Rajnikanth.

However, the irony is, nobody down south has ever seen Aishwarya actually speaking in Tamil.

Things have changed now though. The actress, while shooting for the much- awaited Mani Ratnam movie Raavan, had put her heart and soul into learning Tamil.

She is the female protagonist in both the Hindi and Tamil versions.

Since this film has a lot at stake, Aishwarya doesn't want to appear "fake" to the Tamil audience.

Sources say she has worked really hard to actually "learn" the language this time.

The actress admits it was tough because she didn't have much time to rehearse the Tamil dialogues as she had to shoot for the Hindi version simultaneously.

"He (Mani) used to make me do the entire scene at one go, as he likes to do things that way. So, I used to do one scene in Hindi and immediately after that do the Tamil version of the same scene. It was scary and I used to feel like I was giving my final examinations every day," she says.

"And now after doing it this way, I think it has really boosted my confidence about doing a Tamil film," she adds.

Looks like Aishwarya has given enough hints to Tamil filmmakers so that they can cast her in their movies.

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